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Old 01-11-07, 01:29 PM   #11
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But if everyone has flu then who's going to implement the contingency plan
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Old 01-11-07, 02:11 PM   #12
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Is anyone else having to write contingency plans for their dept/company incase of a flu pandemic this winter? The place where I work is writing contingency plans hundreds of pages long and having numerous meetings. I can't work out whether someone is seriously over-reacting or they know something we don't?!! (I work in a hospital)
Well, the NHS has to spend millions of pounds somehow.

Mate had the Flu jab 3 times, he still gets the flu, and not man flu either... poor sod.

Its scare mongering as usual.
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Old 01-11-07, 02:57 PM   #13
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But if everyone has flu then who's going to implement the contingency plan
Thats what I want to know! They're going to take 'managers' who used to be nurses and have kept up their skills etc and put them back into wards and stuff liek that. If it actually happens its going to be chaos.

Like Viney said though, it seems like a huge waste of money!
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Old 01-11-07, 04:03 PM   #14
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When man flu kills off the rest of the population, us vaccinated elite will build utopia
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Old 01-11-07, 04:25 PM   #15
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I work for an organisation who will be heavily involved in the care of victims and distribution of the Tamiflu doses to the community...

Although the plans may sound overblown, if you'd seen some of the documents I've had to go through you'd be more worried than you are now.
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Old 01-11-07, 06:20 PM   #16
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God help us.If they put managers who used to be nurses back on the wards there really will be a disaster.The only reason they promoted most of them in the first place was to get them away from patients as they were so useless.
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Old 01-11-07, 06:31 PM   #17
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I work for an organisation who will be heavily involved in the care of victims and distribution of the Tamiflu doses to the community...

Although the plans may sound overblown, if you'd seen some of the documents I've had to go through you'd be more worried than you are now.
SO you think there may be an outbreak this winter? We've had to fill in questionnaires asking if we could still get to work etc if family members became ill.
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Old 01-11-07, 06:34 PM   #18
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Perhaps some of the 'Managers' need to be back on the wards full time.
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Old 02-11-07, 12:40 AM   #19
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Well I got a free flu jab from so I got it, though I did feel a bit rubbish the next day......well if I get the flu then I will be like well I got jab what else was I supposed to do?

Mangers eh, they really are a pain in the **** aren't they line them up use mini guns its the only way be surethey are like polticans and lawyers serve only to wind people up
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Old 02-11-07, 09:21 AM   #20
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SO you think there may be an outbreak this winter? We've had to fill in questionnaires asking if we could still get to work etc if family members became ill.
Put it like this, the Public Health people for all seven of the PCTs I'm involved with all sing the same song - 'It's not a case of if, it's a case of when'.

I'm sure we'll see the usual winter 'flu outbreak this year, but that's not really anything unusual - most of the really concentrated planning is going into the bird 'flu situation - dealing with a minimum 25% employee sickness rate, overflowing mortuaries, transport breakdown, etc.

Since our organisation will be involved in transporting Tamiflu around, we're even having to consider the security implications, like lockboxes in vehicles to which drivers don't have access, etc etc.
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